From PBS NewsHour.
Sen. Cory Booker, D-NJ, addressed the Trump administration’s economic and immigration policies, possible cuts to entitlement programs such as Social Security and many Americans’ concerns about the current state of the world during a marathon speech that started Monday night in the U.S. Capitol and continued into Tuesday.
“I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the U.S. Senate for as long as I am physically able,” Booker said shortly after 7 p.m. Eastern on Monday when he began his speech.
Booker said he was intending to start some “good trouble,” a nod to the phrase used by the late Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights activist who represented Georgia in the U.S. House for more than three decades before his death in 2020.
He continued, with the help of questions from Democratic senators, for more than 22 hours, as of 5:30 p.m. Eastern. The late Democratic Sen. Strom Thurmond holds the record for a filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 that stretched for 24 hours and 18 minutes.
“In just 71 days, the president of the United States has inflicted so much harm on Americans’ safety, financial stability, the core foundations of our democracy, and even our aspirations as a people from our highest offices, a sense of common decency,” Booker said. “These are not normal times in America, and they should not be treated as such.”
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